Free workbook
The College Essay Workbook
Where a personal statement comes from, how to tell a real draft from a performed one, and four revision passes that each do one job. Exercises rather than examples — the last thing an essay needs is a template.
What's inside
- Six prompts for finding material, none of which ask about a hardship
- The test for whether a story is yours: what only you could have written
- Structure without a formula — three shapes and when each earns its place
- Four revision passes: meaning, order, sentence, then proofread
- What admissions readers are doing when they read, and how fast
- Supplemental essays: reuse, adaptation, and the “why us” that works
- A page on where AI helps and where it flattens a voice